NOAO Director’s Corner

10 Minute consultation: Mastering management language syndrome.

David R Warriner cardiology registrar and former National Medical Director’s leadership and management fellow , Victoria Twigg ENT registrar and former National Medical Director’s leadership and management fellow , Lucy K Flanders respiratory registrar and National Medical Director’s leadership and management fellow , Edward P Gaynor paediatric gastroenterology registrar and National Medical Di...

Wide-Field Survey Reveals the Variable Sky

Figure 1. A comparison in area and depth between current major surveys and the FSVS. Adapted from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Deep Wide-Field Survey Web pages (see www. noao.edu/noao/noaodeep/): SDSS, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (York et al. 2000); EIS (deep), ESO Imaging Survey (Deep) (Nonino et al. 1999); Deeprange, (Postman et al. 1998); INT-WAS, INT Wide Angle Survey (McM...

Near-Infrared Colors of Hard X-ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei

Based on observations made with the Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1m telescope, which is operated by National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) operated by AURA, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation and with the University of Hawaii 88 Inch telescope. Visiting Astronomer, University of Hawaii Observatory. Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National...

From the Director’s Desk

Transforming NOAO

NOAO has forged new, strong, and productive scientific and technical partnerships with the Dark Energy Survey (DES), Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) projects over the last decade. Through those partnerships, NOAO has connected to key Federal centers such as Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing...